The state government suspended SSP of Gorakhpur Anant Dev Tewari for allegedly beating up the son of a Samajwadi Party leader.
Sources confirmed that CM Akhilesh Yadav ordered the suspension of Anant Deo Tewari after the matter surfaced on Wednesday.
A police team in Gorakhpur led by Anant Deo beat up Gaurav Yadav son of ex SPs district president Gopal Yadav in Cantonment police station over a land dispute.
On Tuesday night, the SSP suspended four cops including a Station House Officers (SHO) and two in-charges of outposts of the area in connection with the incident.
The Gorakhpur unit of the ruling SP were up in arms over police atrocities and have been demanding the suspension of the SSP.
The CM has also ordered the medical examination of the SP leader's son by a team of doctors in Gorakhpur so that a criminal case could be lodged against the accused policemen.
Meanwhile on Tuesday night,the government also removed DIG of Faizabad Range, VK Garg for allegedly assaulting a constable. Action was taken after IG lucknow Zone, A Satish Ganesh submitted his interim report in the case. Garg was later replaced by DIG (Karmik) Rakesh Chandra Sahu as the new DIG of Faizabad.
Earlier, IG (Rules and manuals) Amitabh Thakur had demanded that a case be registered against Garg for assaulting the cop attached as telephone duty at the DIG’s residence. Thakur's demand came after constable Zubair Ahmad from Faizabad Police lines came to meet him on Monday morning and submitted a complaint to him.
The DIG reportedly beat up and abused the constable for failing to respond to the buzzer while working as telephone duty at Garg’s residence on Sunday night.